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...cell phones are used to organize and plan widespread riots that are endemic to their crowded prisons; Canadian prosecutors said a notorious drug kingpin continued business behind bars using his cell phone; and a man awaiting trial on a homicide charge in Maryland has been accused of arranging via cell phone the murder of a key witness in the case. The examples go on and on, some bordering on the absurd. The mother of a prisoner in Texas even called authorities to complain about her son's bad cell-phone reception in jail. (See pictures of the cell phone through...
...Unable to boast about their school’s football prowess, Yale siblings of Harvard students largely tease them for Harvard’s perceived lack of social life, according to several Harvard students. In an e-mail Sunday, Fish wrote that his sister retaliated to his text message via a Facebook wall post: “WTF tailgate closing at KICKOFF?!?!” “Sometimes I kind of see where she’s coming from,” Fish said. But some Harvard students said they do not agree with their siblings’ assessments...
...says. As the volume and variety of multimedia content available on any computer across the globe increases every day, artists within these enclaves gain the ability to distribute their work to anyone with a keyboard. “Rock bands are just as likely to emerge through self-promotion via MySpace or YouTube as they are through major record companies,” Kaufman says. “In the not-so-distant future it will be just as easy to get new movies online as opposed to at a cinema or at a rental store...
While interest in new media has begun to creep into the lives of Harvard students through independent study or via student publications, some faculty members at the college are less enthusiastic about digital art and see limited potential for it in academic study. “Web art, by definition, is ephemeral,” says VES professor John R. Stilgoe. “It is hard to save, even when you try to save it. I fear it’s like a Rothko painting. His paint deteriorated, and I fear that a lot of web art will deteriorate...
...line this weekend - and the sound quality is surprisingly clear. The Smartpen is the perfect tool for taking notes during a class, meeting or interview; it can also save images of the notebook pages you've written on, and all files can be uploaded to a computer via USB, then saved or emailed. On Nov. 24, the company will roll out Livescribe Desktop software for Mac, along with an upgraded Windows version, which includes a new handwriting-to-text translation tool. Speaking of which, the pen's software also includes translations for 21 different words - such as please, coffee, chocolate...